Scare tactics in a neotropical warbler: White tail feathers enhance flush-pursuit foraging performance in the slate-throated redstart (Myioborus miniatus)

Auk

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1024-1035

  Mumme, Ronald L ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PLUMAGE; POSTURE;

COSTA RICA; MONTEVERDE;

AVES; HUMULUS LUPULUS; MYIOBORUS; MYIOBORUS MINIATUS; MYIOBORUS PICTUS; SETOPHAGA;

EID: 0036824072     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090231     Document Type: Article

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